Posted January 30, 2018
A fundamental design flaw in modern CPU chips has forced a significant redesign of the way the Linux and Windows kernels interact with hardware. Named Meltdown and Spectre, these flaws affect all computer systems, both private computers and corporate systems, including those used in cloud infrastructures. Both these design flaws could expose access to ultra-sensitive information. Meltdown is currently only present in Intel x86-64 processors whilst Spectre touches all modern processors, whether they are AMD, Intel, or even ARM. Meltdown breaks the isolation between the memory used by the us...
View More DetailsPosted January 16, 2018
Diaxion Embarks on Consulting and Advisory partnership with Apptio to assist clients in managing their IT spend and Technology Business Management. Apptio supports the discipline of technology business management (TBM). Apptio provides its clients with an integrated Software as a Service capability that provides the necessary functions to help IT departments run like a business and make business decisions on the services they supply. The core basis of Apptio is to provide a clear cost basis of IT, allowing for services (cloud or not) to be billed or provide accurate cost consumption informa...
View More DetailsPosted November 28, 2017
Through our work on automated service delivery, our customer’s investment in automation is tempered by network provisioning times that are often too slow and prone to error. They’re looking for ways to improve deployment and management of networking services due to changes in expectations regarding the speed and flexibility of IT services. Often network service configuration relies heavily on manual configurations based on “runbooks” and Operational Support Systems (OSS) containing static and hard-coded content. The processes can become stale and outdated due to incremental process cha...
View More DetailsPosted November 21, 2017
In a fast paced world, speed to market is important. Traditional project management methodologies typically take a lot of time, effort and cost to plan and execute. With how fast technological improvements are being made, the end result, once deployed using a traditional project management approach, could see the technology being made redundant before it even reaches the release stage of a project. Agile gets around this by using an iterative release approach. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, commonly known as the Agile Manifesto outlines the core values of Agile project manageme...
View More DetailsPosted November 21, 2017
This should be a question that any corporation utilising large spaces of data centres can now ask themselves knowing that there is a more than suitable alternative solution. Large and complex overheads are always associated with data centres. Just getting a piece of hardware in, configured and online can sometimes take weeks or in some cases months. At some stage that hardware will need to be upgraded or replaced, which means more labour and paperwork. What happens when you need to expand and your allotted space is full? Even more complicated networking and hardware placement in a different ar...
View More DetailsPosted November 21, 2017
With the rise of automation, and an increase in the use of "infrastructure as code", IT professionals responsible for systems management are increasingly exposed to new demands, and new risks. It's therefore worth going back to software development fundamentals, and consider the lessons that are applicable in this new world; even if you aren't doing full continuous integration/continuous deployment, there are plenty of basic rules that are still applicable. Development/testing environments It is absolutely critical that your company have multiple environments that developers can use...
View More DetailsPosted November 14, 2017
Is your IT organisation expected to be more agile, enable DevOps and typically do “more with less”? Do you recognise a need to adopt process optimisation, automating those necessary tasks that add little, if any, business value? If so, you are not alone. In recent times, Diaxion has seen a major push to drive down IT infrastructure costs but at the same time increase flexibility, maintain governance, reduce delivery times and increase speed to market. As a result of the increased expectations, the IT infrastructure team is viewed as a business inhibitor rather than the enabler it nee...
View More DetailsPosted November 7, 2017
Are you moving to a software defined data centre? Are you embracing a DevOps culture? What should it encompass? What would be your definition? What business value does it deliver? Are you ready to make the people and process changes needed? DevOps is a cultural and process way of deliver...
View More DetailsPosted October 19, 2017
Many organisations have adopted, or are planning to implement a hybrid cloud platform for a number of reasons: Agility - speed to market Reduced risk Reduced cost IT as an enabler As these organisations move from the old operating model to the new they do not realise the tangible benefits they expected or their old IT workflows are not compatible with the new operating model. One of the barriers for this is the inability to provision the infrastructure component and its associated policies to keep up with the speed at which the busi...
View More DetailsPosted September 28, 2017
To understand the change in thinking represented by modern networking, I've been considering a hypothetical network engineer. A kind of stimulus driven, lizard-brain creature, who is a product of their environment and may fear the changes occurring. This is not a single person, but a collective of network engineers who are in various stages of emergence into a software driven world… A network engineer has trained for years and built their specialist knowledge to understand her networks inside and out. A network engineer creates in her mind a picture of the network and how she expects inte...
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